Hi David, the character in question ist B5, it "mucro" should be "micro". This character is written as C2B5, which ist correct in my opinion. How can I change the encoding to ISO-8859-1?
Thanks in advance Matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Multibyte characters > > > > I am writing xml files which contain physical units. > > Some units contain the greek mucro. > > Do you mean U+03BC which is "GREEK SMALL LETTER MU" or > U+00B5, which is > "MICRO SIGN"? There is no Greek "mucro" character. > > > Xerces writes it as two characters, I remember thats > > because it cannot be displayed as UTF-8. > > Well, if you are using UTF-8 as the encoding, then yes, that > character > requires two bytes (not characters). I'm not sure what you > mean by "thats > because it cannot be displayed as UTF-8." > > > My customer claims that this is wrong. > > Perhaps your customer is expecting you to use an encoding > that represents > that character in one byte. If the character in question is > U+00B5, you > can use ISO-8859-1. If it's U+03BC, you can use ISO-8859-7. > However, > using UTF-8 is a much better option, and your customer can > simply get an > editor that can display text encoded in UTF-8. > > Dave > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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